Art, Architecture & Photography

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MEDICINE - X-RAY]. [Two albums with medical photos from the early 20th century].
[The Netherlands, first half of the 20th century]. 2 volumes. Ca. 22.2 x 32 cm. With 88 photographs mounted onto the leaves (mostly gelatin silver prints), 7 photographs loosely inserted, and 3 loosely inserted folded documents. 19th-century faux reptile leather, side sewn through 3 holes with thick cord. [10]; [13] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MIDDLE EAST]. [Arabic men praying outside].
[Ca. 1880]. One albumen print (ca. 22.5 x 27.5 cm). Tipped onto a stiff paper mount (ca. 40 x 30 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - MIDDLE EAST]. [Collection of eleven snapshots from the Middle East].
[Iraq?, early 1920s]. With 11 snapshots (all ca. 6 x 9 cm). Housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [11] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PALESTINE - LEBANON - EGYPT]. [Album with 128 photographs of Palestine and Lebanon].
[1940s]. Oblong album (30 x 20 cm). With 128 gelatin silver prints (most ca. 6.5 x 9.5 cm). Contemporary embossed brown calf, with flowers on the front and back board, and an aluminium view of David's Tower and Jerusalem's old city wall embedded in the front board. [17] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PALESTINE - EGYPT]. [34 photographic prints of Egypt, Jerusalem and Turkey].
[1880-1900]. With 34 albumen prints (various sizes), of which most signed and captioned in French in the negative, several with a manuscript caption in the lower margin. The photographs are mounted on cardstock or in a passe-partout, the two largest photographs are mounted on opposite sides of the same sheet of thick cardboard. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAIT]. [Arabic Bedouin].
[1935]. One photographic print (ca. 30.5 x 23.5 cm), signed and dated. Mounted on beige cardboard (ca. 33.5 x 25.5 cm), with a gold-coloured border around the photograph. Housed in a clear plastic folder. [1] photograph. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SAUDI ARABIA]. [Collection of thirteen press photographs].
[1930s]. With 13 gelatin silver prints (various sizes). Housed in a brown kraft paper envelope. [13] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SAUDI ARABIA - KUWAIT]. [Collection of twelve photographs, capturing daily life in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s].
[Saudi Arabia or Kuwait], 1954. Ca. 28.8 x 22.8 cm (sheet size: ca. 35.3 x 27.8 cm). Twelve photographic prints, all signed and dated. Housed in clear plastic folder. [12] photographs. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SHAH JAHAN ALBUM]. [20th-century photographic reproduction of the Shah Jahan Album].
[20th century]. 2 volumes. Folio. With 50 photographic reproductions in black and white mounted onto thick passepartout leaves, separated by thinner leaves, onto which typed descriptions are mounted. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled burgundy buckram, with the title and volume number lettered in gold on the front and spine, a double fillet border on both boards, blind-tooled turn-ins, gold and burgundy floral end papers, gilt edges. [1 blank], [26], [2 blank]; [2 blank], [25], [2 blank] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - SHARJAH]. [The Blue Souk in Sharjah].
[Sharjah, 1980]. Ca. 19.5 x 29 cm. One photograph. Housed in a clear plastic folder, with a piece of cardboard for protection. 1 photograph. Full description